How do I put videos on this? I'm seriously considering purchasing a Vision W. I've read a bunch of the reviews, looked at the official Creative ZEN website, and can't figure out exactly what I need to play DVD's and videos on the W. From what I can tell, I need to download software, then put the files in a lengthy conversion process before they can be played on the W. What types of files are acceptable? What do I have to do to play them on the W?Any help is appreciated. How do I put videos on this? I'm seriously considering purchasing a Vision W. I've read a bunch of the reviews, looked at the official Creative ZEN website, and can't figure out... » Read More How do I put videos on this? I'm seriously considering purchasing a Vision W. I've read a bunch of the reviews, looked at the official Creative ZEN website, and can't figure out exactly what I need to play DVD's and videos on the W. From what I can tell, I need to download software, then put the files in a lengthy conversion process before they can be played on the W. What types of files are acceptable? What do I have to do to play them on the W?Any help is appreciated. « Show Less
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It accepts Divx & Xvid (in AVI container, with MP3 audio, simple profile), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and MJPEG (in AVI Container), there are certain limits for them all. You can buy videos online from here or from Walmart, you can record your own video, you can download video online from places like Google Video or YouTube, or you can rip your DVDs. Whether or not you will have to go through conversion varies. Refer to epizenter.net for how to do any of that. You'll need 3rd part software to rip any commercial DVDs, the Creative software won't do it for legal reasons, but you can get software for anything you need for free. It accepts Divx & Xvid (in AVI container, with MP3 audio, simple profile), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and MJPEG (in AVI Container), there are certain limits for them all. You can buy videos online from here or from Walmart, you can record your own video, you can download video online from places like Google Video or YouTube, or you can rip your DVDs. Whether or not you will have to go through conversion varies. Refer to epizenter.net for how to do any of that. You'll need 3rd part software to rip any commercial DVDs, the Creative software won't do it for legal reasons, but you can get software... » Read More It accepts Divx & Xvid (in AVI container, with MP3 audio, simple profile), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and MJPEG (in AVI Container), there are certain limits for them all. You can buy videos online from here or from Walmart, you can record your own video, you can download video online from places like Google Video or YouTube, or you can rip your DVDs. Whether or not you will have to go through conversion varies. Refer to epizenter.net for how to do any of that. You'll need 3rd part software to rip any commercial DVDs, the Creative software won't do it for legal reasons, but you can get software for anything you need for free. « Show Less
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Go to epizenter.net like I said before, it's easy, but I'm not gonna post links to DVD ripping software here, since ripping commercial DVDs isn't legal.
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Thanks. Do you have a link to the software for ripping DVD's?If I want to rip a DVD, does the box indicate what file type the DVD is?
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I put video's on mine by just right clicking on my video file and then selecting "Copy to Creative Zen Vision W" and then putting it in media. Much easier then I anticipated.
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do you know any good avi to mpeg converters or something because the ones that i tried will either convert part of the file, or leave its logo in the center; and of course the zen converter doesnt work at all for me. thanks
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try avi.net. it's free and converts dvds, etc... to avi format. works great too!
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I havent tried making dvd yet but the video format MTS is directly playble on media players like vlc , and can be edited directly by adobe premier. I will try burning dvd then let u know. I have not installed the accompanying software Everio browser as i have not yet got hold of the instalation dvd its lying with my friend . and there is no download available for the same. This is annoying.Camcorder quality functioning is good so far.no complaints.check prices at various sites before buying as there is not of difference
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Hi Darlene...sorry it's taken so long for someone to respond to your post! Anyway, I'm the proud owner of a Creative Zen V Plus, and I can honestly tell you that YES, the little bugger playes videos/movies. The player comes with a handful of Creative Zen commercials installed, including a really cute one with a panda! However...the size of the video displayed is REALLY small....literally the size of a postage stamp, maybe smaller than that. Do realize that a Zen V Plus is only slightly larger than Apple's iPod Shuffle, which is one of the smallest players around. If you want to rip DVD's to play on this thing, that I don't know about. I've been able to upload a "home movie" video that I made myself, and Creative has a ZenCast web site that has a bunch of FREE video downloads. If you are wanting to buy a player primarily to play videos, look elsewhere. The Microsoft Zune does a fantastic job with video for a pocket size player. Other than video display, the Zen V Plus is a great little device.
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I just put in a DVD of .mpg and .avi files and it played them fine. No menu on the DVD, just files. It brought up a list of the files and you can select which on you wouldl like to play. Good feature.
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You can play movies on it, but it is hard to figure out how to do this. Let me explain. I have a USB with 127 movie files on it. I plugged it in to this IVIEW and selected USB as the source. I got the first avi file to play, but I could not figure out to access its subtitles even though the srt file name was displayed. In order to read the remaining 126 files I had to stop the film and then select the USB again. The IVIEW displayed the USB folders much faster than any other player I own. I somehow managed to access a video_ts folder and got that film to play. Again no subtitles could be accessed. When I went back to access some other film files I could not remember what buttons I pushed to view the previous film. There are no instructions from IVIEW on how to use the remote control buttons to access the various video folders. Most of the remote control buttons seem totally useless to me. I pressed every button and it kept saying "feature not available at this time" or some other negative statement. There are many options offered on the right had side of the screen display, but none of these make the film file play on the TV. One would think that selecting the folder and then pressing the PLAY button would work. No it does not. The player seems to have a good brain software with terrible operating instructions and useless remote control. This player does well with avi and other files that are burned on to discs. For my USB film files I always use my Western Digital streamer [the disc menu features work best on the streamer] or my Philips 5990/5992 dvp.
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I have has some success with it. It will ask you to download an add on. It is safe and it helps. I've had some newer DVD's that didn't work. Hope this helps. Otherwise, I highly recommend.
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Hi One Builder, I have had every generation of these WD units and I have not seen that option you are asking about. I know exactly what you meen. If you had a ripped standard dvd in a folder with a VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folder the machine will automatically cycle through the 0.99GB .VOB movie files in order without any pause. You can do some other little tweaks like when browsing the video movie files, the unit gets the case artwork and movie plot,cast and when you highlight a film the background will randomly transition through very High Quality Wallpapers for that film but the cast names you can add your name,etc.. Once the WDTV unit writes a few folders on any inserted usb storage you can remove the storage device and take a look at the factory written folders in the root of your device from a computer or even an android tablet or smartphone with OTG USB port capabilities, if you know LINUX OS you can make things happen with some notepad code. There are a couple forums with custom launchers, so replace the factory firmware, I only see what you are looking to do being added as a feature with a launcher by a code writing individual or you may get lucky and request this add-on in the forums and someone writes new code and releases a new firmware update with the feature. I Like Your Idea Though.
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Thanks Dale --That sounds great! Almost too easy to be true? I guess the big hang up with those old camcorders was getting the video onto a PC, connections, storage space, firewire's, etc.... I just want to put them on a dvd so this sounds like it would work for me. It is just home video of the kids growing up so top image quality isn't really a concern. The only other question is, what do you think the 'playability' of the recorded disc would be on devices going forward, meaning our PC, parents PC, whatever dvd player we have, etc.....? Any special type of disc to ensure compatability with multiple devices?If I spend hours converting but then can't watch, I haven't really accomplished anything. Thanks Dale --That sounds great! Almost too easy to be true? I guess the big hang up with those old camcorders was getting the video onto a PC, connections, storage space, firewire's, etc.... I just want to put them on a dvd so this sounds like it would work for me. It is just home video of the kids growing up so top image quality isn't really a concern. The only other question is, what do you think the 'playability' of the recorded disc would be on devices going forward, meaning our PC, parents PC, whatever dvd player we have, etc.....? Any special type of disc to ensure... » Read More Thanks Dale --That sounds great! Almost too easy to be true? I guess the big hang up with those old camcorders was getting the video onto a PC, connections, storage space, firewire's, etc.... I just want to put them on a dvd so this sounds like it would work for me. It is just home video of the kids growing up so top image quality isn't really a concern. The only other question is, what do you think the 'playability' of the recorded disc would be on devices going forward, meaning our PC, parents PC, whatever dvd player we have, etc.....? Any special type of disc to ensure compatability with multiple devices?If I spend hours converting but then can't watch, I haven't really accomplished anything. « Show Less
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Andy,I used some SW called Sonic to format a DVR+R disc and copied/burned a few Xvid (.avi) files to it. But the 5960 was not able to read/load the files. What went wrong? How did you burn files to DVD+R disc?Thanks,Vicne
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Actually I purchased the DVD for my brother who lives in other country and took the DVD player with him. We put USB drives and Data DVD's with videos in AVI format, and played them without difficult. Probably some videos were in another format but I don't remember, the fact is that all the videos in the media were played. I don't think it would be able to read video formats from camcorders or Digital cameras without conversion to playable formats.
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After reading over that page, I found that this does not support DVD menus. Hopefully this functionality will be added sooner rather than later.How difficult is it to switch between two video output sources if you are unable to see the menus?
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I just read that the .MOD extension of the JVC can be changed to .MPG for recognition by Windows Media Player and should work with other software since it is a standard format. (You can do this by copying the file onto your PC, right clicking and renaming. With this extension you should be able to burn to a DVD. I am interested in purchasing this camcorder but will NOT do so if I have to purchase extra software. If someone tries this, please let me know if you are successful. JVC appears to receive much better reviews than Sony other than the burning issues. The article I read can be found at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-12-06-camcorder-hard-drives_x.htm. I just read that the .MOD extension of the JVC can be changed to .MPG for recognition by Windows Media Player and should work with other software since it is a standard format. (You can do this by copying the file onto your PC, right clicking and renaming. With this extension you should be able to burn to a DVD. I am interested in purchasing this camcorder but will NOT do so if I have to purchase extra software. If someone tries this, please let me know if you are successful. JVC appears to receive much better reviews than Sony other than the burning issues. The article I read can be found... » Read More I just read that the .MOD extension of the JVC can be changed to .MPG for recognition by Windows Media Player and should work with other software since it is a standard format. (You can do this by copying the file onto your PC, right clicking and renaming. With this extension you should be able to burn to a DVD. I am interested in purchasing this camcorder but will NOT do so if I have to purchase extra software. If someone tries this, please let me know if you are successful. JVC appears to receive much better reviews than Sony other than the burning issues. The article I read can be found at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-12-06-camcorder-hard-drives_x.htm. « Show Less
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If you have Windows 7, the Windows Media Player should play them. If you have an older version of Windows, you'll probably need to convert them, or you can upload them to YouTube (can leave them set to Private or Unlisted if you don't want the world to see them) and let YouTube convert them for you (though I've found that it doesn't do a perfect job of rendering them for you, they seem to be a little choppier when uploaded straight from AVCHD format vs. rendering them to .wmv first). To convert/render them yourself, a good program is Sony's Vegas Studio HD. About $90, but at that it's a lot cheaper than something like Adobe Premier and it does a good job of handling HD video.
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I have a JVC mg555, and I just changed a vid file ext to .mpg.WMM imports it, but is not reading the video part only audio. Weird. I am still working on it.
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E.Soares Thanks too for the Sylvania web site. Manual was extremely helpful. Had hopes NB530 would playback MP3 music on SD card also on DVD. Doesn't seem as though MP3 format is supported. Thanks again for listing information.
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The recorded files are stored securely. To view them, go to "Video Player", press "OK", the unit should show "No files!". Hold down on the two "VOL" buttons (VOL-/&lt;&lt;I and VOL+&gt;&gt;I) for more than 3 seconds, the unit will read recorded videos and a list of videos will show up. Use the two VOL buttons to select the one you want to play. Please let us know if this helps. Thank you.
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Hello, simply open the Video folder ? Icon on the main screen and click the button on the very top right hand side of the screen this will allow you check off what icons you want in that menu and you can add them. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any more questions!